Gerhard Egger (Mostrocker)

Gerhard Egger (born 14 October 1949 in Gosau, Upper Austria) is an Austrian songwriter, composer, author and Alpenrock pioneer.

[citation needed] 1969 he moved to Linz, attended the teacher training college and won the Innviertel Grand Prix interpreter competition with his own songs.

Egger left the group, finished his studies, began teaching as a primary school teacher in Stadl-Paura and backpacked through Europe as a musician for two summers.

Without much expectation for success for this kind of Alpine music, he toured through Austria and Bavaria with the Coverband "Broadway" as a part-time keyboarder and singer.

[5] Their first album Vom Dachstoa bis nach Tennessee gained some attention in 1987, well before musicians like Attwenger and Hubert von Goisern stormed stages with a similar music style.

[9] In 1998, Egger wrote and produced the "Stadlinger Anthem", based on the motto “Think globally, act locally.” The result was an album in ten different versions with artists from the pop, rock, folk, choral and classical genres.

In 1999, on the occasion of the Weltfest (world festival) of the MIVA he composed the "WeltSong" and performed it together with musicians from Africa, Latin America, Asia and Europe.

In 2002, he was approached by the newspaper Oberösterreichische Nachrichten to set the dialect text of the Franz Stelzhamer-lyrical contest "Segn und Sagn" to music.

In 2019, he came back to the public with his album "Regenbogenland“, the first part of a rock opera soundtrack, by returning to the spirit of Woodstock and the peace movement of 1969.